GNOME 3 Released

Post by hendi_ » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 7:06 AM UTC

bad_user wrote: post #65

GeneralMaximus wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hazarding a guess here: because some of us might enjoy different colors and fonts?

I used to change themes a lot back in the day ; now I just wish for a usable desktop that doesn't get in my way, and Gnome / KDE are awful from that point of view. That's the reason why I'm developing software on Linux, but dual-boot in a Windows 7 partition for design-related work, as that requires mouse-based interactions, and in Gnome I can't even rely on copy/paste to work properly. Changing themes and fonts is n…

   For me priorities would be having basic
   functionality, like copy/paste, working properly

   or how about a task-switching applet (activated 
   on alt-tab) that can use the mouse to select the 
   window you want;

   or desktop notification windows that you can 
   close (those notifications in Ubuntu are really 
   obnoxious)

Post by hendi_ » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 7:16 AM UTC

TuxPirate wrote: post #45

Does anyone have instructions on how to build this beast?

Post by bad_user » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 7:21 AM UTC

hendi_ wrote: post #71

bad_user wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to change themes a lot back in the day ; now I just wish for a usable desktop that doesn't get in my way, and Gnome / KDE are awful from that point of view. That's the reason why I'm developing software on Linux, but dual-boot in a Windows 7 partition for design-related work, as that requires mouse-based interactions, and in Gnome I can't even rely on copy/paste to work properly. Changing themes and fonts is n…

For me priorities would be having basic functionality, like copy/paste, working properly It really should work. Since ages. Care to elaborate where copy and paste doesn't work in Gnome? Cause that's really a bug. or how about a task-switching applet (activated on alt-tab) that can use the mouse to select the window you want; You can do that with Gnome 3. Press Alt-Tab, hold down Alt and click around to your app. Work…

    It really should work. Since ages. Care 
    to elaborate where copy and paste doesn't 
    work in Gnome?

Post by wladimir » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 7:28 AM UTC

ugh wrote: post #74

wladimir wrote: post #72

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Yes, the Apple mindset assumes that there is a good way and people are not interested in tweaking that. You can agree or disagree with that. I do agree that a sane set of defaults is good. It should be usable without customization. But for one, I am interested in tweaking things. From the operating system to how things look. That's why I use open source. Isn't that the original hacker spirit?

It is but various Open Source projects do want to cater to many more people than just hackers. There are several open source desktop environments, they don’t all have to have hackers as their target group, have they? Just looking at Gnome’s website I would argue that maybe Gnome just isn’t for you and that there is nothing wrong with that.

Post by kleiba » Thu, Apr 07, 2011, 8:10 AM UTC

antidaily wrote: post #35

lallysingh wrote: post #9

They really should concatenate some of those videos together. Each one individually is a little underwhelming.

at the very least, get rid of the personal intros and "one of the hundreds" bit.